Actual Tom, that's only about 1% of how email addresses are received. There are bots out there that will try to get an email address from a website. The same way a search engine works.
-----Original Message----- From: tom muck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2002 4:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using CF to control Spam Most spam comes from things that you sign up for on the Web, whether you realize that you are signing up for spam or not. I've had this email address for two years now and still only get one or two spams per day -- on a bad day. Certainly managable by spending the 1 or 2 seconds to hit the delete key. My email address is plastered all over my Web site, plus I post several hundred times per month in various newsgroups to the point where a search on Google lists my email address 3900 times. If spammers are harvesting email addresses from mailing lists and newsgroups, they are skipping mine. ;-) If you are careful about what you are signing up for, you can virtually eliminate spam. When you register at a Web site or register a product make sure you aren't leaving the default checkbox for "allow us to notify you of exciting offers from our co-conspirators/spammers" unchecked -- most sites have this spam button set ON by default. tom ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
